Anna Min pulled back enough to study her father's face carefully, searching for any signs that he didn't completely mean his words. There were none, so she nodded slightly and finally set her book aside to wrap her arms around his neck and hug him tightly.
"Promise not to disappear like that again?" she asked, just to be sure. It wasn't the length of time he'd been away that bothered her so much. It was the not knowing where he was or when (or even if) he was going to come back. "Mistakes are okay, as long as you don't keep making the same one over and over. Next time I won't talk to you anymore." That wasn't true at all -- there was nothing she wouldn't eventually forgive him -- and they both knew it, but she wanted it to be true, and that meant just as much.
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Date: 2008-03-19 12:24 am (UTC)"Promise not to disappear like that again?" she asked, just to be sure. It wasn't the length of time he'd been away that bothered her so much. It was the not knowing where he was or when (or even if) he was going to come back. "Mistakes are okay, as long as you don't keep making the same one over and over. Next time I won't talk to you anymore." That wasn't true at all -- there was nothing she wouldn't eventually forgive him -- and they both knew it, but she wanted it to be true, and that meant just as much.